Definitions of stealer
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a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it
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synonyms:
thief
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Khayr ad-Din
Barbary pirate (died in 1546)
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Jean Laffite
French pirate who aided the United States in the War of 1812 and received an official pardon for his crimes (1780-1826)
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Sir Henry Morgan
a Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688)
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Bartholomew Roberts
a Welsh pirate credited with having taken more than 400 ships (1682-1722)
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Edward Thatch
an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)
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Dick Turpin
English highwayman (1706-1739)
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types:
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bandit, brigand
an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band
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booster, lifter, shoplifter
a thief who steals goods that are in a store
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burglar
a thief who enters a building with intent to steal
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dacoit, dakoit
a member of an armed gang of robbers
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defalcator, embezzler, peculator
someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use
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body snatcher, ghoul, graverobber
someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection
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graverobber
someone who steals valuables from graves or crypts
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holdup man, stickup man
an armed thief
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larcener, larcenist
a person who commits larceny
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cutpurse, dip, pickpocket
a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
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literary pirate, pirate, plagiariser, plagiarist, plagiarizer
someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own
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despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler
someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
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robber
a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence
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cattle thief, rustler
someone who steals livestock (especially cattle)
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cracksman, safebreaker, safecracker
a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents
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snatcher
a thief who grabs and runs
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pilferer, sneak thief, snitcher
a thief who steals without using violence
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bank robber
a robber of banks
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highjacker, highwayman, hijacker, road agent
a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it
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cat burglar, housebreaker
a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house
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mugger
a robber who takes property by threatening or performing violence on the person who is robbed (usually on the street)
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buccaneer, pirate, sea robber, sea rover
someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation
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wharf rat
someone who lives near wharves and lives by pilfering from ships or warehouses
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type of:
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criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw
someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
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